Jake Peavy Quotes
You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you've done something.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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I love India.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Basically, I always wanted to be an author but went through all these other jobs while getting up the nerve to finally go for it with my writing! Thank goodness it worked; who knows what I might have done next?
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If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.
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I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.
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You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you've done something.
